Scrap Map Saturday ~ Paris

The theme this week at Creative Craft World is one landscape photo.

Oh, good grief! This happened last week! I need a photo in a size that I haven't got and can't get. Well, I was all ready to chop down a 6x4 picture to make it more landscapey, when I realised that I always panic without thinking things through.

In the 1990s I had a camera that took landscape photos alongside normal photos (and another size that I can't recall). I wanted that camera. I loved that camera. My Dad said it was a silly camera and eventually I'd not be able to get the film for it or the novelty would wear off. He was right, of course! But before I gave up on my expensive toy I did take some landscape shots. I've not scrapped any of them before as I only have one copy of them and no idea what happened to the negatives.

So, here's my first layout using a truly landscape photo:


I pushed the landscapeyness even further by making it a 6x12 layout.

Almost chose a landscape shot of Grand Canyon, but I'm still loving my shiny new Rouge de Garance Gustave papers and as they feature architectural elements of the Eiffel Tower and this photo has the Eiffel Tower in it - small, but it's there - I had to go for this.

Then I went a little Eiffel Tower crazy! Used a Prima mask to add a little Distress Ink (Vintage Photo) tower to the left side, although it doesn't show up well in real life, let alone this photo and also a little piece of the Parisian ephemera that comes with the K&Co Maison paper pad.

It's very unlike me to mix Paper Companies on on layout. I do try, but I have a habit of keeping them together, so mixing K&Co with Rouge de Garance is quite startling!

Saguaro National Monument

My father doing an impression of a Saguaro Cactus. I didn't post my last Saguaro layout, so, in the spirit of catching up, here it is:


Not a great picture, sadly, but you can see me doing my own impression. It was quite a popular spot, a lady in a car in front of us stopped and did the exact same thing. My inspiration for this came from this layout* that I saw before I went to America.

*You may need a UKS account to view that.

Just for the Donuts!

Thought I could multitask today by doing another 6x12, collecting some extra donuts and adding to my Road Trip album.


So I've picked up donuts for small embellishment, something to do with time and making a journalling block. Made from Crate Paper: Static and I really seem to be going through a phase of stitching swirls onto everything I do. I won't have time for that this weekend at the Cyber Crop. I'll have to leave gaps and stitch onto them later.

This is my 100th post! :)

My First Six-By-Twelves!

The very first attempt was this one of Melman at Christmas, where I also practiced my doodling:


I bought myself a bunch of Christmassy papers in order to try and make up some cards for next year, but they're all so pretty that I wanted to scrap with them. So I decided to try for a smaller layout size. Now I have a few cards made up, a pair of layouts and still have lots of paper left over. :) Best of both worlds.

This is a cold & frosty afternoon walking to Sir Beville Grenville's monument on New Years Eve.


All papers are MME and the lace came from my Teamie Janet. {{hugs}}